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Though Mayor Wagner has yet to block the Hudson and barricade the Thruway, the secession crisis between city and state is rapidly becoming critical. City Democrats are fed up with the paltry allotment of tax monies which Albany Republicans vote them, and are now considering the possibility of taking the city out of the state altogether. Westchester Country, lush back yard for Madison Avenue, would presumably join the new enclave...
...Ohio, which were pushing their own major road-building programs when the federal-aid Highway Act was passed in 1956, came into the program well prepared. Most of the modern state toll roads already built will be incorporated into the new interstate system, e.g., the straight, broad New York Thruway, the Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes. Solid advances in building new roads also have been scored by Maryland, New Mexico, Missouri, Washington and Illinois...
...nation's economic and social life, the federal program will work far-reaching changes. Burgeoning highways will start new businesses all along their routes; $150 million in new plants has gone up along Massachusetts' six-year-old Route 128, and the recently completed New York State Thruway has already attracted dozens of industries. New towns will grow up around the geometric cloverleafs, and commuters will be able to drive long distances to work at a mile a minute. Highway motels, now growing at the rate of 3,000 a year, will multiply even faster to serve additional millions...
...BREAKDOWN INSURANCE will be sold for 10? by garages that hold exclusive rights to aid motorists on 427-mile New York State Thruway. Good for one day, policy entitles driver to free emergency services costing up to $25 in cases of stalling, tire trouble...
Completed this year at a cost of $1 billion, the Thruway has proved so popular that the first sections opened in 1954 netted $7,000,000 in tolls on 522 million miles of travel. This year the completed road will take in three times that amount. In his new $20,000-a-year job, which he plans to start early next year, Tallamy will be responsible for one of the most ambitious single public-works projects in history-41,000 miles of superhighways as well as hundreds of miles of spur and connecting roads stretching into every corner...